Sept. 23: 'Sixth Extinction'
Photo by Nicholas Whitman September 09, 2016
Author Elizabeth Kolbert to discuss Pulitzer winner ‘The Sixth Extinction’
Noted author and journalist Elizabeth Kolbert will discuss her Pulitzer Prize-winning work The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, a book about mass extinction, at 10 a.m., Friday, Sept. 23.
The lecture will be held in the Gore Recital Hall of the Roselle Center for the Arts on the University of Delaware campus in Newark.
UD’s McKay Jenkins, Cornelius Tilghman Professor of English, will welcome and introduce Kolbert.
The event is free and open to the public, however pre-registration is encouraged for planning purposes. To register, click here.
Following the lecture, UD students will join Kolbert on stage for a question-and-answer session on her book Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change.
The book is the core text for the UD course UNIV267 The Global Climate Encounter: Climate Change and Food Security co-taught by UD professors Lindsay Naylor and Dana Veron.
Kolbert has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999 and her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Vogue and Mother Jones, among other publications.
She is a recipient of the Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism from the American Geophysical Union, and her work has received recognition from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Sciences.
The lecture is hosted by the Department of Geography, which is housed in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, and sponsored by the CORE pilot program and the Environmental Science and Studies program.
For more information, contact Lindsay Naylor at 302-831-8271 or lnaylor@udel.edu.
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